Flexible Working Hours and recreation leave

The PSA has been in ongoing discussions with icare in relation to the current restrictions that have been placed on your access to your Flexible Working Hours Agreement. Throughout those discussions, and in an attempt to resolve the issue, a further concern has arisen between icare and the PSA in relation to excess recreation leave, transitional flex leave balances and icare’s overall situation resulting from…

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Emergency ambulance cover available for all PSA/CPSU NSW members

In uncertain times, it is good to know your union has your back. As we still continue to deal with COVID-19 we have extended emergency ambulance cover for a further six months until February 2021 for all eligible members. If members are hit by injury or sickness, for whatever reason, they will get emergency transport to the nearest available hospital equipped to deal with their…

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Have your say! DCJ Employee Survey – COVID-19

A survey was recently circulated in an email from Secretary Coutts-Trotter to members working in the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ). The PSA strongly encourages all members in Non-Custodial Corrective Services and Community Corrections to complete this survey and provide feedback on how they have personally handled the challenges in the workplace that the pandemic has brought over the last few months. This…

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Ministry of Health and PSA Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meeting – 10 June 2020

BREAKING NEWS – PSA raises concerns around lack of consultation on the introduction of Performance and Talent program (PAT) The PSA has written to the Ministry raising a potential dispute resulting from a lack of consultation on the introduction of PAT to staff. The PSA was advised this week that MoH plan to introduce PAT on 1 July 2020. This was the first we were…

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POVB bulletin

One out court locations For well over 10 years, the POVB Executive have been working to increase staffing levels on shifts at court locations that work one out. This matter has been on the POVB books for a long time and at all the meetings we attend, we raise the matter and the risk to staff in these locations. We are pleased to tell our…

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